Foster left West Africa with 110 young men, women, and children crowded into the schooner ... But a national slave ship memorial—akin to the watery grave of the U.S.S. Arizona in Pearl Harbor ...

In 2019 we began reporting on the discovery of the Clotilda - a sunken slave ship found in the bottom of an Alabama river. The Clotilda was the last ship known to have brought captured Africans to ...

They sent hundreds of slave ships from New York’s crowded wharfs disguised as legal merchantmen in pursuit of African goods such as palm oil. By the opening of the Civil War, they were also ...

Photograph by Elias Williams, National Geographic Some 500 people crowded into the gymnasium ... making the Clotilda the first National Slave Ship Memorial. But Senator Figures is reluctant ...

Terrified, the prisoners of that 1860 voyage were crowded onto “shelves ... Although America had long outlawed slave ships, stealthy slavers still managed to land their cargo of Africans ...

On July 7, 1860, the last slave ship to land in the U.S. moored off the coast of Alabama. Crowded in the fetid hull of the Clotilda were 103 African captives, mostly adolescents and children.

The ship was turned away from Libreville, Gabon, after the Transport Ministry issued a press statement claiming there were 250 Nigerian children aboard, destined to be used as slave labour.

When Captain Crow arrived in Kingston, Jamaica, he found the harbor crowded with slave ships, their human wares going unsold. Today, Liverpool stands where it always has, rising above the Mersey ...

On the slave ships, people were stuffed between decks ... shackled wrist to wrist or ankle to ankle. People were crowded together, usually forced to lie on their backs with their heads between ...